Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and Students at Law, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1875 - Political ethics |
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... whole people of the nation on which it acts . Such a work is pecu- liarly important in these times , when so many false theories are afloat and so many disturbing doctrines are promulgated . " PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . Besides ...
... whole people of the nation on which it acts . Such a work is pecu- liarly important in these times , when so many false theories are afloat and so many disturbing doctrines are promulgated . " PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . Besides ...
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... whole of itself , and has for that reason been called part first , and not volume first . In carrying the work through the press , I have derived great advantage from the valuable advice and indefatigable kindness of my friend Mr ...
... whole of itself , and has for that reason been called part first , and not volume first . In carrying the work through the press , I have derived great advantage from the valuable advice and indefatigable kindness of my friend Mr ...
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... whole magnitude of his dis- covery for thousands of generations yet unborn ? Has the perseverance of Columbus never reached your ears ? And have you heard of these things without feeling joy or pain ? Has no drama ever touched you ? On ...
... whole magnitude of his dis- covery for thousands of generations yet unborn ? Has the perseverance of Columbus never reached your ears ? And have you heard of these things without feeling joy or pain ? Has no drama ever touched you ? On ...
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... whole , compares the simple qualities , thus dis covered , with others obtained by the analysis of other total impressions , and reduces them to generic or general ideas ( the process of generalization ) . He combines these again and ...
... whole , compares the simple qualities , thus dis covered , with others obtained by the analysis of other total impressions , and reduces them to generic or general ideas ( the process of generalization ) . He combines these again and ...
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... the Organization of Human Languages . The whole in the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin for the year 1832 , vol . ii . nomena must be explained by instinct , because animals have 26 ETHICS IN GENERAL .
... the Organization of Human Languages . The whole in the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin for the year 1832 , vol . ii . nomena must be explained by instinct , because animals have 26 ETHICS IN GENERAL .
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Page 307 - Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
Page 54 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 327 - ... he looked upon the independence and uprightness of the judges, as essential to the impartial administration of justice ; as one of the best securities of the rights and liberties of his subjects; and as most conducive to the honour of the crown.
Page 283 - That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 84 - I apprehend (when the term is used with any distinct meaning), an exercise of the judgment unaided by any Art or system of rules; such an exercise as we must necessarily employ in numberless cases of daily occurrence; in which, having no established principles to guide us — no line of procedure, as it were, distinctly chalked out — we must needs act on the best extemporaneous conjectures we can form. He who is eminently...
Page 195 - Crimes are the acts of individuals, and not of denominations ; and therefore arbitrarily to class men under general descriptions, in order to proscribe and punish them in the lump for a presumed delinquency, of which perhaps but a part, perhaps none at all, are guilty, is indeed a compendious method...
Page 210 - Indeed, it is found by experience, that whenever the unconstitutional oppressions, even of the sovereign power, advance with gigantic strides, and threaten desolation to a state, mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity ; nor will sacrifice their liberty by a scrupulous adherence to those political maxims which were originally established to preserve it.
Page 362 - I numbered the efforts it made to accomplish this object. The grain fell sixty-nine times to the ground; but the insect persevered, and the seventieth time it reached the top. This sight gave me courage at the moment, and I never forgot the lesson.
Page 246 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves, their heirs and posterities for ever...
Page 270 - Again, men have no pleasure, but on the contrary a great deal of grief, in keeping company, where there is no power able to over-awe them all.